Saturday, September 13, 2014

Hügelkultur

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Completed Hügelkultur bed prior to being covered with soil.

Hügelkultur is a composting process employing raised planting beds constructed on top of decaying wood debris and other compostable biomass
plant materials. The process helps to improve soil fertility, water
retention, and soil warming, thus benefiting plants grown on or near
such mounds.[1][2]

Quantum Theory Proves That Time Does Not Exist

Quantum Theory
and non-locality goes something like this; Take two particles, A and B
(photons or electrons for example). Pair them, then separate them, and
put them on either side of the planet. Stimulate particle A, and
particle B will react without any time delay.

August 16, 2014 – Links
International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The war between the Ukraine
government and the republics of Novorossiya [New Russia] is gradually taking on
the character of a positional stand-off. The resources of both sides are
exhausted, and fighting reserves are at an end. For the people’s republics,
defending themselves against the many times larger military forces of the Kiev
regime, the well-known principle of “a government needs to win, but for an
insurrection it is enough not to lose” operates with full force.

The
deteriorating economic situation in Ukraine, the growing demoralisation of
supporters of the Kiev regime and the gradual development of a partisan
movement on government-controlled territory together herald a new phase in a
civil war that will clearly extend far beyond the boundaries of the south-east.

Global Post, the employer of freelancer James Foley, fails to pass smell test

National news media operations based in Boston are almost like musicals that run "off Broadway."

We can add Global Post to the off-Broadway journalistic hit parade. Global Post is
the Boston-based website that employed freelance photo journalist James
Foley in Syria, recently beheaded by his Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL) guerrillas in Iraq, appears to be a subsidized operation
with an agenda that matches up nicely with that of international hedge
fund tycoon George Soros.National
media operations not based in New York or Washington, DC are usually
subsidized by interests with agendas. One Boston-based media operation
that has a clear agenda is The Christian Science Monitor, a
church-owned operation, which has become increasingly neo-conservative
in its coverage since it scrapped its print edition and became an
exclusively web-based operation. The other Boston-based national media
operation is CAMERA - the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East
Reporting in America -- which serves as the Israel Lobby's often rabid
media watchdog.

Foley, who was kidnapped on November 22,
2012 in northern Syria, near Idlib, by Syrian guerrillas who were not
members of ISIL for the simple reason that ISIL did not yet exist. Foley
was originally captured by an Islamist group that took its orders from
the Central Intelligence Agency-organized and trained Free Syrian Army
(FSA), whose leaders led their "army" not from the battlefield but from
posh Istanbul hotel suites paid for by the Turkish, Saudi, and Qatari
governments.

In early 2013, ISIL took over the rebel group
holding Foley and other kidnap victims. Foley, like other journalists,
was offered up for ransom by ISIL, which is now said to have some 4000
members who are Europeans, Australians, North Americans, and even a few
Japanese, who have no Muslim or Middle Eastern familial backgrounds. In
fact, the British citizen who beheaded Foley on video is said to go by
the first name of "John," which is certainly not a Muslim name.

Ransom
payments for kidnap victims like Foley have turned into a big business
for ISIL and other terrorist groups. France, Italy, and Spain have paid
large ransom amounts for its nationals taken hostage in Syria, West
Africa, and Somalia. It is stated U.S. and British policy not to pay
ransoms for hostages, however, as witnessed in the Iran-contra scandal,
the U.S. is known to have traded arms to Iran for the release of
hostages held by Shi'a groups in Lebanon.

In the case of Foley, ISIL had been in email communication with his family and Global Post
to work out a ransom deal. However, ISIL said it beheaded Foley in
retaliation for U.S. air strikes against ISIL guerrillas who were
advancing toward the Kurdish capital of Erbil in northern Iraq.

There are reports that ISIL has even purchased kidnapped Westerners from
other groups as far afield as Kashmir, Somalia, and Yemen in order to
trade them for cash. Al Qaeda's reputed leader, Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri,
is said to have called for Islamist groups to seize Western hostages in
return for freeing Islamists held in prisons around the world.

The focus on Global Post
yields some interesting connections. Foley had previously covered other
U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Foley was always
embedded with U.S. troops, as was the case in Iraq and Afghanistan, or
U.S.-supported militias in Libya and Syria. During the 2011
CIA-initiated Libyan rebellion against Muammar Qaddafi's government,
Foley was taken captive by Qaddafi army loyalists and held for 44 days.
Foley preferred being embedded with those fighting on the side of the
United States rather than cover wars from different perspectives. Such
wartime journalism would lead some believe that Foley was performing
non-journalistic tasks on U.S.-created battlefields, that is, espionage.

President Obama interrupted his summer vacation on Martha's
Vineyard to condemn Foley's beheading. Obama also phoned Foley's parents
who live in New Hampshire. Subsequently, it was reported officially
that U.S. Special Forces had attempted a rescue mission in Syria to free
Foley and other American hostages but it failed. Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel said that normally such operations would not be revealed but
that in the case of Foley an exception had been made because the
information on the failed rescue operation had already been "leaked" to
the press. One could ask why an administration that is intent on putting
some journalists in prison for publishing leaks of classified
information would make such an exception, itself involving classified
special forces operations, for Foley?

There has long been a
debate within the U.S. intelligence community as to whether it is proper
to use intelligence agents operating abroad under journalistic cover.
Past administrations, including those of Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford,
banned the use of journalists and missionaries by the CIA. Others,
including the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George
W. Bush administrations were not so adamant against the use of
journalists as spies. The Obama administration's leeway given to the CIA
for all sorts of operations previously prohibited or inhibited opens
the door for journalists, once again, being used as agents in hot spots
like Syria, Libya, and Iraq.

Which brings us back to Global Post.
The media operation has not been around long. It was initiated on
January 12, 2009, a week before the inauguration of Barack Obama as
president, by two Boston businessmen, Charles Sennott and Philip
Balboni. The new website claimed it was going to "redefine international news for the digital age." Originally charging an annual subscription of $199 a year, Global Post cut its annual rate to $30 a year, which has been WMR's unchanged annual subscription rate since 2005. However, Global Post's subscribers' base only stood at around 400. Yet, Global Post
could boast of 65 worldwide correspondents, albeit, many of whom, like
Foley, were freelancers. But how does an on-line media with subscribers
only in the hundreds manage to finance reporters in war zones like Syria
and Libya while maintaining a worldwide network of correspondents?

Global Post,
with its lackluster business revenues, was able to cut syndication
agreements with the Public Broadcasting System (sometimes mockingly
referred to as the "Pentagon Broadcasting System"), the Sumner
Redstone-owned CBS, and the Mort Zuckerman-owned New York Daily News. Oddly, just two years after its start-up, Global Post
had garnered Peabody, Polk, and Edward R. Murrow awards for its "On
Location" video coverage. Clearly, someone wanted to increase Global Post's street credentials through an "award washing" campaign.

Owned by Global News Enterprises, LLC and headquartered on Boston's affluent waterfront, Global Post's board
of directors and management includes those who have had only a glancing
encounter with actual journalism: former cable television executives, a
former chairman of C-SPAN, a former member of the board of The Boston Globe, a former publisher of The Boston Globe,
an assistant to the CEO of the Hearst Corporation, a public relations
flack for PBS, and a board member of the Boston public television
station WGBH.

But even more suspicious is the presence on the staff of Global Post of two former editors for The Cambodia Daily,
a CIA-connected publication officially owned by Cambodian orphanage
"aficionado" Bernard Krisher; a former senior correspondent for the CIA-
and Soros-linked Radio Free Europe in Prague; a graduate of the
CIA-linked Sasin Business Institute in Bangkok; a former Boston Globe Jerusalem bureau chief, a former editor for the CIA-connected Tico Times of Costa Rica, and a former editor for the hard-neocon publication The Atlantic. Global Post's team of international correspondents are steeped in neocon credentials, from The Daily Beast and Kyiv Post to The New Republic and The Daily Telegraph.

While
the White House and journalists mourn the death of Foley, it is
important to point out that his photo reporting seldom departed from the
confines of U.S. military units or irregular rebel forces supported by
the CIA. It is tragic that one of those CIA rebel forces ultimately
would subject Foley to a gruesome videotaped beheading. However, as much
blame for that rests with those who supported the rebellion against
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, individuals like CIA director John
Brennan and national security adviser Susan Rice, as with the rebel
executioners themselves.

Democracy and Class Struggle publishes this analysis of the situation in
the Eastern Ukraine from Boris Kargarlitsky for information.

We are trying to verify what he says but if it is true what he says about Akhmetov"The
Russian press is already reporting openly on an agreement reached
between the Moscow bureaucrats and the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov
".This is extremely concerning.PS: We can now verify the worrying fact that Akhmetov is back on the scene from our sources.

August
16, 2014 – -- The war between the Ukraine government and the republics
of Novorossiya [New Russia] is gradually taking on the character of a
positional stand-off. The resources of both sides are exhausted, and
fighting reserves are at an end. For the people’s republics, defending
themselves against the many times larger military forces of the Kiev
regime, the well-known principle of “a government needs to win, but for
an insurrection it is enough not to lose” operates with full force.

This is the indubitable, irrefutable, indisputable, incontestable Chris Hedges, and this is about the most extraordinary thing he has ever published:

But Israel engages in the kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize
despotic and totalitarian regimes. It does not deform the truth; it
inverts it. It routinely paints a picture for the outside world that is
diametrically opposed to reality. And all of us reporters who have
covered the occupied territories have run into Israel’s
Alice-in-Wonderland narratives, which we dutifully insert into our
stories—required under the rules of American journalism—although we know
they are untrue.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

1. No limits to the Ukie warfare.2. It is a War against Russia.3. Time is on Kiev's side.4. The Americans are militarizing and mobilizing all Ukraine against Russia.5. After Donbass, Crimea is next.6. Ukraine is an occupied territory of the America.7. Europe is the next theatre of war. It is where America gains its biggest economic thrust and wealth-stealing.8. China is the next big national target, using the same techniques and Japan and South Korea as levers.9.
Russia is the target now along the Ukraine border and Black Sea, also
later with Europe as a wider theatre, the Baltic region, and finally,
with China as the third region of war, the Far East and arctic.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Vice Magazine, the on-line "news" site
founded in 1994 in Montreal as the print edition "Voice of Montreal,"
has become a major influential media outlet. But the on-line magazine
also appears to be doing the bidding of Western governments in aiming
its fury at Russia, North Korea, and other countries that are receiving
full barrages from the neo-conservative propaganda industry.

That
Vice would be tied to neo-con propaganda efforts comes as no surprise.
In 2013, News Corporation's Rupert Murdoch acquired a 5 percent stake in
Vice.

As examples of Vice's commitment to
seriousness, it broadcasts a "news" show on HBO. The executive producer
is a comedian, Bill Maher. The show's consultant is none other than New
World Order poster boy Fareed Zakaria.

In its zeal to carry Washington's and the neocons' water, Vice is starting to edge out the Obama sycophants at The Daily Beast in trying to prove which is the better media prostitute.

Jane Harman, media mogul

This Financial Times
profile of Jane Harman, the former congresswoman who is CEO of the
Woodrow Wilson Int’l Center, doesn’t mention Israel, but there’s a lot
about her wealth: her marriage to the late inventor Sidney Harman, her
jaw-dropping house in Washington, her Barcelona chair, the picture of
her late husband with Bill Clinton.

This glimpse into the Jewish establishment describes Harman as the “owner” of Newsweek/The Daily Beast.

I
ask about a sculpture on the coffee table, of a man on a bench. “It
was an award for Sidney in honour of [financier] Bernard Baruch,” says
Harman, who took over as owner of Newsweek/Daily Beast after her
husband’s death.

Well this is confusing. Newsweek/Daily Beast was co-owned by Barry Diller and Harman’s late husband. Sidney Harman died in April 2011 at 92. This obit in the Times said that his estate was assuming his ownership share, but no individual was named.

February 18-19, 2014 -- The Daily Beast outed as an NSA information warfare assetThe National Security Agency, according to a February 18 article in The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher, used an article in The Daily Beast
as a reference point for a NSA TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN Intellipedia
database entry titled "Manhunting Timeline 2010." The database entry
refers to the international manhunt, which included NSA assets, for
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange came to prominence after
70,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan were leaked to the
media.

The NSA's use of The Daily Beast as a reference
within a classified database is unusual. It is, in fact, rare for NSA
to use open source references to bolster classified intelligence reports
for two reasons: the not invented here syndrome and the fear that
mixing classified and unclassified open source information will diminish
the security attached to the classified portions of such reports.

The NSA information, culled from The Daily Beast article
of August 10, 2010, stated that the United States urged other nations
with forces in Afghanistan to consider filing criminal charges against
Assange as a way of focusing national power upon "non-state actor
Assange, and the human network that supports WikiLeaks." Essentially, The Daily Beast
provided the straw man arguments for the NSA to claim the legal
authority to urge two of its "Second Party" or FIVE EYES allies, Britain
and Australia, to prosecute Assange, with "Third Party" NSA partner,
Germany, also joining in the prosecution.

The Daily Beast,
along with the National Security Affairs department at the U.S. Naval
War College, was at the forefront of a vicious attack campaign launched
against the WMR editor after he was quoted on the front page of June 29,
2013 edition of The Observer of the UK on NSA's Third Party signals intelligence relationships in Europe. The Observer, in response to a coordinated attack by The Daily Beast, which provided three of its reporters -- John Avlon, Joshua Rogin, and Michael C, Moynihan -- to CNN's Reliable Sources program to perpetuate the attack which began on Twitter.

The Observer and The Guardian not only pulled WMR's editor's quote from their web pages but The Observer yanked its print edition from circulation.

The revelation that The Daily Beast is used within NSA's classified Intellipedia system as a primary reference source calls into question the independence of the on-line publication and points to its possible links The Daily Beast has to the U.S. and UK Intelligence Communities. The Daily Beast was once owned by Newsweek but as a result of mergers and corporate shedding it is now owned by IAC, the firm owned by Hollywood mogul Barry Diller.

The Daily Beast was founded by publisher Tina Brown, who is married to former Sunday Times of London editor Sir Harold Evans,
who is believed by many intelligence agency scholars to be a longtime
cipher for Britain's MI-6 (Secret Intelligence Service). MI-6 and NSA's
British partner, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), both
report to the Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. During his time as editor of The Sunday Times,
Evans reportedly permitted MI-6 agents to drafts of the newspapers
articles before publication, particularly those that dealt with British
intelligence defector to the Soviet Union Kim Philby.Evans was also known to employ known MI6 agents as Times's journalists, including one John Sackur.

As for The Observer caving to pressure from The Daily Beast, there should be no surprise.The Observer is owned by The Guardian's parent company, Guardian Media Group. The Guardian's
editor, Alan Rusbridger, agreed to destroy computer hard drives
containing copies of files from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The Guardian
has long toed the British Liberal Democratic Party line. At the time of
the attack on WMR's editor, the Liberal Democrats were a coalition
partner of the British Conservative Party government of Prime Minister
David Cameron.Today, The Guardian continues to advance the Western and George Soros-influenced propaganda memes of Britain and the United States. For
example, it has no problem with Venezuela's CIA- and MI6-directed
opposition using the same photograph (below left) on Twitter purportedly
showing Venezuelan police attacking a woman that was also published by The Guardian in December 2011 showing Egyptian police beating the very same woman (below right).

When it comes to advancing Western capitalist propaganda, The Guardian, The Observer, and The Daily Beast all serve the same masters at Fort Meade, Maryland and Cheltenham, England, the latter the location of GCHQ headquarters.

Monday, July 28, 2014

http://rt.com/op-edge/176068-eurasia-new-great-game-war/#.U9aK8_iNAHs.facebook
The New Great Game in Eurasia never ceases to thrill with extreme
plot twists. The Big Three players remain the same: the US, Russia and
China. The devil is in the concentric subplots.
In Washington, the deep state Russia ‘policy’ has
revealed itself to be sanctions, sanctions, sanctions; because of
Crimea, because of support for federalists in Eastern Ukraine,
because of the MH17 tragedy.

MH17: Another Israeli Cover Up?

The
latest disaster, one that has scrubbed Israel’s bizarre onslaught into
Gaza off newspaper front pages, 298 dead, can be nothing but more than
yet another cover up operation. Every news asset, every politico known
to be a creature of the Israeli/organized crime nexus, has weighed in.
Their every lie tells one story; “Israel did it.”

The facts tell another story, one of
false flag terrorism. If only McCain and Tony Abbot, if only Fox and
CNN, the Huffington Post and, worst of all, accused Israeli spy, Jane
Harmon’s Daily Beast:

“Why would Putin want to shoot down a
commercial airliner? And if it was an accident, why would Putin allow
the separatists to have a weapon this powerful without having full
control over how it was used?”

You couldn’t scream “Israel did it” any
louder. It is almost embarrassing. There is nothing innocent about these
utterly fabricated stories, particularly when the truth, a very
different truth, is out there as well, substantiated, validated and
verified.

Saturday, July 26, 2014

http://www.overlordsofchaos.com/html/new_order_of_barbarians.html
The New Order of Barbarians is the transcript of three tapes of reminiscences made by Dr Lawrence Dunegan, of a speech given on March 20, 1969 by Dr Richard Day (1905-89), an insider of the "Order,"
recorded by Randy Engel in 1988. Dr Dunegan claims he attended a
medical meeting on March 20, 1969 where Dr Richard Day (who died in 1989
but at the time was Professor of Paediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical
School in New York and was previously the Medical Director of Planned
Parenthood Federation of America) give "off the record"
remarks during an addressed at the Pittsburgh Pediatric Society to a
meeting of students and health professionals, who were destined to be
leaders in medicine and health care.

New Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Takes on Pro-Russia Separatists, but Critics Worry About Growing Power of Oligarchs

By

Alan Cullison

June 27, 2014 12:31 p.m. ET

Ihor Kolomoisky, a billionaire banking tycoon recently
appointed governor of Dnipropetrovsk region in eastern Ukraine, has
vowed to defend the country.
Reuters

DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine—Leaning over a map of eastern Ukraine on his desk,
Gennady Korban
gripped a ballpoint pen and drew a squiggling blue line down its center.

The
border, he said, marked the battlefront in his country's war with
pro-Russia separatists. One side was stable, rid of "troublemakers," he
said. On the other are "maniacs," he said. "Men without families, who
don't want families, they just like war." If they cross over the line,
he said, "we'll just have to kill them."

he Daily Star
BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah vowed that his party would stand by the resistance in Gaza during a telephone conversation with Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders.
Nasrallah voiced his party’s readiness to cooperate with both
Palestinian resistance parties which have been confronting Israeli
aggression on the Gaza Strip for the past 14 days. The Israeli offensive has killed nearly 500 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians.

BEIRUT: Hezbollah’s deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem vowed to continue fighting against a takfiri terrorism scheme that he said was orchestrated by the U.S. and Israel.
“We,
as Hezbollah, have only one direction: the resistance on the basis of
Islam and jihad for the sake of God,” Qassem said in remarks published
Monday. “We have set the compass and the needle points toward Israel.
... We are fighting one scheme, which is the American-Israeli takfiri
scheme."Lebanon
“is in the line of fire and is affected by what goes on around it,”
Qassem warned. “Those who talk about distancing and neutralizing
Lebanon ... are speaking [words] of emptiness.”
“We, as Hezbollah, have said from day one that what began in Syria under the title ‘reforms’ was an Arab-Western takfiri scheme to destroy Syria in favor of Israel's interest,” he said.

http://vladimirsuchan.blogspot.com.br/2014/07/mh17-killing-innocent-civilians-in.html?spref=fbA
fuller version of what happened starts emerging piece by piece. First,
as I pointed out earlier, in one his daily battle reports, Strelkov or
his associates indicated as if in passing that the Malaysian airliner,
Boeing 777, was shot down by
Ukrainian jet fighters. Then came the briefing by the Russian Ministry
of Defense, which showed a Ukrainian SU-25 within 3-5 km from the Boeing
at the very moment when the Boeing was hit. In the next four minutes,
the Ukrainian fighter remained in the area. At the moment, when the
Boeing was hit, it was also within the range of several Ukrainian Buk
batteries, which were deployed close to Donetsk and then, just for that
very day, 8km south of Shakhterskoye, which is also only several miles
from the crash site.

As the only non-European journalist
to cover The Hague inquiry into the Amsterdam crash of El Al flight
1862 (October 1992), which destroyed a Biljmeer district apartment
complex, I discovered many aspects of the Israeli security set-up at
Schipol International Airport and the role of the Mossad intelligence
agency in secret operations there, one of Europe’s business transport
hubs. This same airport spy Network is very likely involved in the recent crash of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 over the Ukraine.

I
examined it, found it ridiculous. And I've been through Schiphol a time
or two myself. Points to consider fully, then ridicule - 1) Shimatsu
admits he is baised in favor of Kiev govt. How can you take seriously
anyone who for any reason supports those nazis? 2) He proposes the Kiev
govt conduct the investigation into MH17. Don't make me laugh! 3) His
list of Israeli motives don't even make sense. 4) His only stated
qualification for commenting on MH17 is his being "The only non-European
journalist" to cover a different plane crash 22 years ago. That speaks
for itself. 5) This pedestrian attempt at misdirection ignores all the
REAL evidence that has come to light and instead promotes utterly
unsubstantiated speculation that also leave open the "anti-semetic"
rebuttal. 6) "The only way for ground troops to identify a plane is by
coded radar response from its transponder signal." Or a decent pair of
binoculars. 7) Israel's "drone army of mini-robots" WTF? 8) rense.com.
Nuff sed.

Sergei Glazyev said the United States would be the first to suffer in the event of any sanctions regime.

Full Sanction Program:

Exchange controls and capital controls. No more hot money. You have to get gov permission to send money in or out
You have to protect the ruble against Anglo American attack using above all credit default swaps. Probably ought to ban CDS immediately

State monopoly on international trade

The threat on defaulting on all money owed to New York and London Banks

Dumping the entire portfolio of US Treasury Securities

The central bank. Elvira Nabiullina replaced. Abandon current position of being a satellite of the US Federal Reserve. Only creates new rubles when they have dollars in the vault. You have to start issuing your own ruble denominated loans at very low interest rates as close to zero as you can get and that has to be lent for infrastructure, foreign trade financing, mfg, ag, mining, forestry, scientific research,

How Russia Can Respond to the West's Economic War

1. Exchange controls and capital controls. No more hot money. Gov permission to send money in or out of country. Protect the ruble against Anglo American attack who will use credit default swaps. Ban CDS immediately

2. State monopoly on international trade

3. Default on all money owed to New York and London Banks

4. Dump the entire portfolio of US Treasury Securities

5. The central bank: replace Elvira Nabiullina as head. Abandon being a satellite of the US Federal Reserve. Start issuing ruble denominated loans at very low interest rates - zero century - to be lent for infrastructure, foreign trade financing, mfg, ag, mining, forestry, scientific research

Presidents and a Columnist

There’s
nothing like the hypocritical narcissism of the elite neoliberal
Democrat. It’s something to see. First he elegantly embraces and advance
“free market” doctrine that distributes wealth and power upward while
spreading misery amongst the populace and destroying the Earth. Then he
wants to be accorded progressive and humanitarian points when you preen
with concern over the predictable terrible social and/or environmental
toll that neoliberal policy takes. In classic narcissistic fashion, the
elite Democratic neoliberal dissociates from the pain he inflicts,
wrapping himself in Teflon as he feigns disapproval with the outcomes of
the agenda he helped take forward. It’s always those evil crazy
Republicans’ fault, of course.

… As part of my original posting, I mirrored a map of modern Palestinian
history that has the virtue of showing graphically what has happened to
the Palestinians politically and territorially in the past century.Andrew Sullivan then mirrored the map from my site,
which set off a lot of thunder and noise among anti-Palestinian writers
like Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, but shed very little light. (PS,
the map as a hard copy mapcard is available from Sabeel.)

Remember when Senator John McCain went to Syria and met with factions of rebels fighting the Assad regime?
As it turns out, the group that he was meeting with was a particular subset of rebels in Syria, who we now know as ISIS.

That’s right, the very same terrorist group ISIS which is carrying
out ruthless acts of terror and crime in Iraq as we speak, was who
McCain was meeting with in Syria.
When the Arizona senator got back from his trip to Syria, he said…
“It was a very moving experience to meet these fighters who have been
struggling now for over two years,” McCain said on CNN’s “Anderson
Cooper 360”.
“And they’re very aware of the battlefield situation” the Arizona
senator continued, “and they’re very disturbed about the dramatic influx
of Hezbollah fighters, more Iranians, and of course, stepped-up
activities of Bashar Assad.”

Social Security - It’s Complicated!

In
my experience, a sound retirement plan consists of three essential
pieces: an advanced tax plan (ATP), an income plan, and an investment
plan. While the investment plan should be the nucleus, proper income and
tax plans are critical and are often overlooked.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-kind-anarchism-i-believe-and-whats-wrong-libertarians?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmarkoam Chomsky:Well, anarchism is, in my view, basically a
kind of tendency in human thought which shows up in different forms in
different circumstances, and has some leading characteristics.
Primarily it is a tendency that is suspicious and skeptical of
domination, authority, and hierarchy. It seeks structures of hierarchy
and domination in human life over the whole range, extending from, say,
patriarchal families to, say, imperial systems, and it asks whether
those systems are justified. It assumes that the burden of proof for
anyone in a position of power and authority lies on them. Their
authority is not self-justifying. They have to give a reason for it, a
justification. And if they can’t justify that authority and power and
control, which is the usual case, then the authority ought to be
dismantled and replaced by something more free and just. And, as I
understand it, anarchy is just that tendency. It takes different forms
at different times.
Anarcho-syndicalism is a particular variety of
anarchism which was concerned primarily, though not solely, but
primarily with control over work, over the work place, over production.
It took for granted that working people ought to control their own
work, its conditions, [that] they ought to control the enterprises in
which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated
with one another in free associations, and … democracy of that kind
should be the foundational elements of a more general free society. And
then, you know, ideas are worked out about how exactly that should
manifest itself, but I think that is the core of anarcho-syndicalist
thinking. I mean it’s not at all the general image that you described —
people running around the streets, you know, breaking store windows —
but [anarcho-syndicalism] is a conception of a very organized society,
but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as
little control and domination as is feasible, maybe none.

NEW DELHI: Israel
stood out amidst the congratulations pouring in for Prime
Minister-designate Narendra Modi from world leaders (Read: The World
Welcomes Modi, World Page) across the globe with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu being amongst the first to wish the BJP leader on
his electoral success. Modi has reportedly assured Israel that he will
be the first Indian premier to visit Jerusalem, according to the
Israeli media.

Israel’s incremental genocide in the Gaza ghetto

In Gaza, the implementation of the Zionist vision takes its most inhuman form.(Ezz Zanoun / APA images)

In a September 2006 article for The Electronic Intifada, I defined the Israeli policy towards the Gaza Strip as an incremental genocide.
Israel’s present assault on Gaza alas indicates that this policy
continues unabated. The term is important since it appropriately locates
Israel’s barbaric action — then and now — within a wider historical
context.

Charlie presents an over view of leaked RAND Corp memo and then discuses history of RAND with activist Gary Hendershot.A
recent leaked memo from the RAND Corporation spells doom for the people
of eastern Ukraine. The grotesque disregard for human life in this
memo is staggering. Charlie and Gary break down the memo including
likely authenticity.

All the graphics are from the site Visualizing Palestine,
a site dedicated to creating informative and impactful graphics about
the occupied region. Check out many more of these images on their site1. The Forced Exile of The Palestinian People

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I am the son of a Huichol medicine man, a Valiente, and a Zapatista. I channel Simón Bolívar when Hugo Chavez isn't in town. In a prior lifetime, I rode with Pancho Villa in the foothills of the Sierra Madre and the Chihuahuan Desert and while I will always admire him, in the end he was a disappointment